Monograph on the art of Allan McCollum. Edited by Rhea Anastas. Text by Martha Buskirk, MaryJo Marks, and Catherine Quéloz. "Since the late 1970s, Allan McCollum (born 1944) has addressed the anthropology of art: its distribution, acquisition, display and interpretation. ... [details]
Artist's book / exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy, April 2 - May 21, 2011. Curated by Maurizio Bortolotti. Edited by Maurizio Bortolotti, Lionel Bovier, and Massimo Minini. ... [details]
Periodical edited by Cristina Bechtler and David Campany. Text by John Baldessari, David Campany, Amy Cappellazzo, Jessica Morgan, and Naomi Shohan. "PA is an annual artist''s magazine devoted to artists that use photography. ... [details]
Critical theory publication by Dorothea von Hantlemann. Edited by Karen Marta with a foreword by Hans Ulrich Obrist. "If what we call art has never been so important to (Western) societies as it is today, the question that lies at the heart of 'How to Do Things with Art,' takes on an ever greater urgency: how does art become politically or socially significant? Dorothea von Hantelmann addresses this issue on a theoretical level, and indicates, through the analysis of works by James Coleman, Daniel Buren, Jeff Koons, and Tino Sehgal, how artists can create and shape social relevance; in other words, she provides what could be called a pragmatic understanding of art's societal impact today. ... [details]
Large-sized artist's book by Jim Shaw. "Contains works from five series of portraits made over the course of the artist's four-decade-long career: the 'Distorted Faces' drawings (1978-85) and paintings (1986-2007); the 'Noir' portraits of 1978; the sketches for Shaw's 'Giant Face' paintings (1992) and other assorted faces from 1993-2006. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Musée de la Musique, Paris, March 9 - June 24, 2007. Traveled to Australian Center for the Moving Image, Melbourne, November 15, 2007 - February 3, 2008. ... [details]
Monograph / exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with exhibition held at Swiss Pavilion of the 2011 Venice Biennale, 2011. "Establishing a Critical Corpus is the first theoretical examination of the work of Thomas Hirschhorn (born 1957), in six illustrated essays by authors including scholars Claire Bishop and Hal Foster and the poet Manuel Joseph, providing a variety of angles on Hirschhorn's practice. ... [details]
Monograph on the work of Guy de Cointet by Marie de Brugerolle. Preface by Larry Bell. Afterword by Gerard Wacjman. Includes biography and bibliography of the artist. "Mentor to a generation of Californian Conceptualists and performance artists, Guy de Cointet (1934-1983) took language as a material from which to generate drawings, plays and performances. ... [details]
"This publication reunites Mike Kelley's major interviews with artists and cultural figures such as AA Bronson, Larry Clark, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Jutta Koether, Harmony Korine, Tony Oursler, Richard Prince, Jim Shaw, Michael Smith, Jeffrey Sconce, and John Waters, outlining, in the same manner as his critical essays, an artistic genealogy that draws its references from American popular culture, scientific and historical research, and the inhibitions of Western society. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium, April 12 - July 27, 2008. Traveled to Museion, Bolzano, Italy, January 16 - April 19, 2009. ... [details]
